Loomed Cushions

Important: this is not a Minecraft 26.2 mod

CurseForge does not currently provide Minecraft 26.3 Snapshot 5 as a selectable game version. Because of that, the download is listed under 26.2, but the JAR itself is made for Minecraft Java 26.3 Snapshot 5 (26.3-alpha.5).

Do not launch it on 26.2—it will not load. Use the exact snapshot listed below.

A collection of patterned cushions beside a loom

Cushions already have a lot of building potential, but they felt like they were missing one very obvious interaction: if banners can go into a loom, why not cushions?

That is the whole idea behind Loomed Cushions. Put a cushion into the vanilla loom, add dye, choose a pattern, and take out a decorated cushion. There are no new crafting stations or complicated systems to learn. The mod simply makes the loom work with all 16 vanilla cushion colors.

Several cushion colors decorated with symbols and geometric patterns

You can use ordinary loom designs as well as banner pattern items, then layer them just as you would on a banner. Creeper faces, skulls, globes, flowers, spirals, bricks, borders, stripes, gradients, and the rest of the vanilla pattern set can all become cushion designs.

Using a cushion in the loom

A cushion and dye in the loom with the vanilla pattern list open

The process is intentionally familiar:

Put any colored cushion into the loom.
Add a dye.
Choose one of the available patterns.
Add a banner pattern item when the design requires one.
Take the patterned cushion and put it back into the loom to add another layer.

You can build designs with up to six layers, following the same limit and basic rules as vanilla banners.

A special banner pattern being applied to a cushion in the loom

The output preview and inventory icon show the actual result before you take it. Designs also stay attached when a cushion is held, dropped, placed, picked up, broken, saved, loaded, or synchronized in multiplayer.

Banner patterns, rebuilt for a square surface

Banners are tall rectangles. Cushions are squares. Simply squeezing the original banner rendering onto a cushion made symbols look flattened and made borders and stripes stop awkwardly at the edge.

Loomed Cushions adjusts the patterns for the cushion's shape. Symbols such as the Creeper, Skull, Flower, Globe, Flow, Guster, and Snout keep sensible proportions, while geometric designs are fitted to the square surface.

The pattern is not painted only on top, either. It continues over all four sides and onto the underside, so a cushion still looks finished when viewed from an angle or used as part of a larger build.

Build with more than one cushion

Blue brick patterns forming one continuous tiled surface

Repeated patterns can line up across neighboring cushions. A group of individually placed cushions can read as one larger textile instead of a collection of unrelated tiles.

Dark cushions arranged into a clean connected grid

This works especially well for floors, rugs, seating areas, tent interiors, wall decorations, and any build where a single cushion is too small for the design you have in mind.

White stripes continuing across a cross-shaped cushion arrangement

Straight lines can continue through intersections, and the same idea can be used to draw paths, frames, crosses, or larger geometric shapes.

A white band turning neatly across an L-shaped cushion arrangement

Corners stay clean as well, which makes it possible to turn a pattern through an L-shaped arrangement without the design suddenly looking cut off.

Made a mistake? Wash one layer away

A patterned cushion being used beside a water-filled cauldron

Use a patterned cushion on a water-filled cauldron to remove its most recently applied layer. Each wash removes one layer and consumes one level of water. This makes it possible to undo the last step without throwing away the entire cushion and starting again.

Exact requirements

Minecraft Java: 26.3 Snapshot 5 (26.3-snapshot-5 / 26.3-alpha.5)
Mod loader: Fabric Loader 0.19.3 or newer
Dependency: Fabric API 0.155.3+26.3 or newer for this snapshot
Java: 25

For multiplayer, install Loomed Cushions and Fabric API on both the server and every connecting client. The server handles the patterned cushion data and behavior; clients need the mod to render those patterns correctly.

Compatibility notes

Loomed Cushions replaces the item-model definitions of the 16 vanilla cushions so their pattern layers can appear in inventories. A resource pack or another mod that replaces those same cushion definitions may cause visual conflicts.

This is an alpha build for an active Minecraft snapshot. Mojang may still change cushions, rendering, loom behavior, or item data before the stable 26.3 release, so use a test world or keep a backup of any world you care about.